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Feel free to make changes to the template files or the document files. The supporting docs are located in their respective directories, and the API docs are located under the _includes directory.
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IMPORTANT: We have professional translations of the Express documentation into:
- German
- French
- Italian
- Spanish
- Brazilian Portuguese
- Japanese
- Simplified Chinese
- Traditional Chinese
- Russian
- Korean
Therefore we can no longer accept community translations for these languages, except for corrections to the existing translations and updates to align with changes or additions to the English documentation.
To contribute a translation into another language, following the procedure below.
Follow these steps:
- Clone the
expressjs.comrepository - Create a directory for the language of your choice using its ISO 639-1 code as its name.
- Copy
index.md,api.md,starter/,guide/,advanced/,resources/,4x/, and3x/, to the language directory. - Remove the link to 2.x docs from the "API Reference" menu.
- Update the
langvariable in the copied markdown files. - Update the
titlevariable in the copied markdown files. - Create the header, footer, notice, and announcement file for the language in the
_includes/directory, in the respective directories, and make necessary edits to the contents. - Create the announcement file for the language in the
_includes/directory. - Make sure to append
/{{ page.lang }}to all the links within the site.